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    Silent Signal Blog

    blog.silentsignal.eu · Company blog · on HN since 2014

    Silent Signal, a Hungarian security firm, writes about penetration testing, IBM i hacking, exploits, and vulnerability tools.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link it for technical security write-ups, such as UUID weaknesses in standard libraries and hacking the Java debug wire protocol.

    Stats for nerds
    21HN people shared it
    37linked in comments
    214story points
    Jun 2017last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
      1 person · 110 points · first shared 2015 · 52 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Our new tool for enumerating hidden Log4Shell-affected hosts
      1 person · 22 points · first shared 2021 · 3 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Proxying nonstandard HTTPS traffic
      1 person · 10 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Bake your own EXTRABACON
      3 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      The story of a pentester recruitment
      1 person · 8 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Simple IBM I (AS/400) HACKING
      1 person · 8 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Story of a Pentester Recruitment
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Evading Cisco AnyConnect Blocking LAN Connections
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      CVE-2014-3440 – Symantec Critical System Protection Remote Code Execution
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      The Curious Case of Encrypted URL Parameters
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • dnetJun 2017

      It depends. I wrote a blogpost about the security implications of UUIDs back in February (https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2017/02/17/not-so-unique-snowflakes/) and it shows that not all standard libraries make secure-by-default easy for the developer. I developed a MIT licensed plugin for Burp Suite (https://github.com/silentsignal/burp-uuid) that can help pentesters and security minded developers to detect insecure UUID versions, and even in that plugin I described version 4 UUIDs as "randomly generated, although [their] entropy should be checked".

    • iopuyMar 2017

      https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2014/02/09/jdb-tricks-hacking-java-debug-wire/

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